Press Release12 Nov 2020Product Data
CGF Members Work to Improve Product Data, Reducing Supply Chain Costs and Ensuring Consumer Trust PARIS, 12th November 2020 – The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) announces five projects, as part of its Product Data Coalition of Action, that are designed to address two fundamental challenges in the industry’s data exchange...
Blog24 Sep 2021E2E Value Chain
Do More with Less: Use Existing Emissions Data to Accelerate Decarbonisation As more companies set bold decarbonisation goals such as Science-Based Targets or Net Zero pledges, a major organisational shift is occurring across the global corporate landscape: the topic of carbon is moving from a pure...
News Update30 Jun 2020Product Data
Latest News from the Product Data Coalition The Co-Sponsors of the Product Data Coalition, David Taylor, Procter & Gamble and Olaf Koch, METRO, recently held a Sponsor virtual meeting with the aim of discussing the Coalition’s priorities for the next year. The...
Blog22 Feb 2021Product Data
How Accurate & Harmonised Product Data Streamlines Global Industry Operations & Builds Consumer Trust Presently, it is near impossible to accurately estimate the number of products traded across global markets, and even more so to understand how many of them have unique identifiers and find each product’s history and...
Blog01 Apr 2021E2E Value Chain
7 Questions Away | Product Data Interview With Ethem Kamanlı, Migros Ticaret The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) caught up with Ethem Kamanlı, Supply Chain Solutions Director at Migros Ticaret, to talk about his company’s experience in collaborating with the CGF’s End-to-End (E2E) Value Chain initiative and rolling...
News Update22 Mar 2021Product Data
CGF Board Co-Chair Shares Migros Ticaret’s Product Data Journey in Turkey The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) launched its Product Data Coalition of Action in 2020 to address weaknesses faced in today’s data exchange processes by ensuring that all products have a unique identification, that all IDs...
Blog02 Sep 2020Product Data
Data Transparency Takes Centre Stage Throughout the Pandemic The rate of change in consumer demand witnessed over the past few months has been unprecedented, calling attention to the importance of effective lines of communication between suppliers and retailers. As demand for certain products spiked and supply...
News Update13 Oct 2020
CGF’s Product Data Coalition and GS1 Publish a Quick Start Guide on Key Data Projects The Consumer Goods Forum and GS1 have published a two-page Quick Start Guide to help companies better understand the three strategic initiatives they are working on to address the weaknesses of today’s data exchange processes...
Blog06 Oct 2020Product Data
Achieving a More Responsive Supply Chain: Lessons from COVID-19 Seven months into the COVID-19 lockdown, consumers still find themselves fighting for toilet paper, disinfectant wipes and nitrile gloves at their local retail stores. On the flipside, many Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies who saw...
Press Release10 Nov 2023Food Waste
Global Consumer Goods Companies Release First Collective Baseline Study, Putting Increased Transparency at the Forefront of Action to Reduce Food Waste and Loss Paris, 16th November 2023 –The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)’s Food Waste Coalition of Action has today released its first baseline report, presenting operational food surplus and waste aggregated data from sixteen of its retailer and...
News Update25 Feb 2020Product Data
Product Data Coalition of Action Launched at E2E Steering Committee Meeting in Lisbon The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) End-to-End Value Chain & Standards (E2E) initiative held its first bi-annual Steering Committee meeting of 2020 in Lisbon on 11th -12th February and officially launched its Product Data Coalition of...
Blog05 Mar 2024E2E Value Chain
Overcoming Regulatory Challenges With Data Management Consumer product companies and grocery retailers are essential businesses that provide critical food products across the world and have built trustworthy relationships with consumers. As major economic drivers with a sizable influence on the environment...
News Update14 Oct 2021E2E Value Chain
The Consumer Goods Forum’s End-to-End Value Chain Initiative and Product Data Coalition Hold Steering Committee Meeting Ahead of New WinterComes Event in Sitges, Barcelona The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) End-to-End Value Chain (E2E) initiative and Product Data Coalition of Action held their bi-annual Steering Committee meetings in Sitges, Barcelona on 29th and 30th September. The E2E initiative works towards...
News Update29 Nov 2021E2E Value Chain
CGF E2E Co-Chair Talks Product Data, Industry Collaboration, and Digitisation in New Interview To tackle some of today’s biggest data exchange challenges, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) formed its Product Data Coalition of Action at the start of 2020. The Coalition brings together retailer and manufacturer members of...
News Update22 Feb 2024E2E Value Chain
Supply Chain and Product Data Experts Explore AI for Business The IBM Innovation Studio hosted leaders in supply chain and product data at the first E2E SpringBoard of 2024 in New York City. The morning opened up with the Product Data Coalition Steering Committee meeting....
Blog05 Jun 2019Global Summit
Why Business Transformation Needs a Platform “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” I love this quote by Mario Andretti, one of the world’s most successful race car drivers, and a fellow Italian. Winning the race to meet...